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New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year (macrumors.com)
New submitter TheFakeTimCook writes: An article on MacRumors has revealed that Apple's latest MacBook Pro has already outsold all competing laptops this year, according to new data shared by research firm Slice Intelligence: "Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States. The new MacBook Pro generated over seven times the revenue that the 12-inch MacBook did over its first five days of availability, according to Slice Intelligence. If accurate, that means it took the new MacBook Pro just five days to accumulate 78% of all the revenue generated by the 12-inch MacBook since its April 2015 launch. The data follows Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller's claim the new MacBook Pro had received more online orders than any previous MacBook Pro as of November 2. Apple has also reportedly told its overseas manufacturers to expect strong MacBook Pro shipments to last until at least the end of 2016. Slice Intelligence extracts detailed information from hundreds of millions of aggregated and anonymized e-receipts."
Pent up demand?
Apple *do* know their target markets after all!
Personally I wouldn't want one. Too many VMs, and I want 32GB in my next laptop, but that's some sales, so whodathunkit, I'm not your typical purchaser; and, probably, neither are those who were complaining...
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...in the immortal words on Professor Farnsworth.
I'll buy anything if it's shiny and made by Apple
So these new MacBook Pro are outselling their competition... Lenovo's Yoga 900, not Lenovo's Thinkpad [T/X/P], etcetera. So the new MacBook Pro are effectively the new Macbook AIR line, only with a misleading name.
Sod off, Apple.
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I am not sure how data from 13000 e-shoppers can determine the income from the rest of the US without it just being speculation, but I am willing to ignore the situation entirely because I don't own any apple products nor was I going to buy one even if it was the greatest thing since computers became available.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
I looked up these laptops and the ASUS Chromebook Flip is a $300 netbook, the Dell Inspiron 2-in-1 is also a $300 netbook , and Lenovo Yoga 900 isn't even for sale on lenovo's Canadian site.
Total units? Dwarfed by the rest of the market.
"New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year " (TFS and TFA title)
... the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue ...
Perhaps we differ on the meaning of the phrase "out sold". I take it to mean "number of units" not total revenue. By the latter standard, my house has out sold all new MacBook Pro's this year -- okay, maybe not *my* house, but someone's house ...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
There are lots of people that want an Apple laptop (because it is cool) and will upgrade because it is thinner. Apple knows this and made a product to sell to them.
The problem may be that they are alienating certain developers. It still remains to be seen if the people complaining are really a large population or just a loud population. Many reviews complained about "lack of ports" on the MacBook but that laptop is awesome (I have been using it since April 2015 and love it) and I am not alone. I don't think people will mind getting a dongle or get new accessories (SD card readers). I do think that Apple needs to provide an option for 32GB of memory.
Even if Apple pisses people off, I don't see people moving to Windows all of a sudden since there are other issues there. I wish Linux was a more viable alternative for a development environment. That would be awesome to see see developers take that up.
...it only has USB-C connectors and no analog audio jack.
Trump will make sure future MacBook Pros will be Made in America. We can all get jobs assembling MacBook Pros and America will be great again!
FTFY: It has outsold other Ultrabooks.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
I'm due for an upgrade - but the new form factor (specifically the connectors) don't suit me. Limiting me to 16G is also a non-starter. The good news is that my 4 year old MBP 13" is still pretty awesome. I'll wait till next year - maybe by then the port situation will get a bit less frustrating.. Or not.
When you don't update your machines in years. Less than a month ago, the top Mackbook Pro has a Haswell processor in it.
There was so much pent up demand, that all they had to do was upgrade the processor, and it would have outsold the competition.
This is not vindication that what they released is exactly what people wanted, it's a testament to Apple REFUSING to give the users what they want - Timely updates!!!
All of the reviewers and pretentious DOUCHES bought them to accessorize their life style of imagining they're cool. :)
Look at me, I'm empowered by my latest Apple toy. I can now type noisily in my local coffee shop to let the world know that I am a DOUCHE. So slurp SLURP slurp slurp, click click CLICK click.
Or this is just more propaganda from the Apple dweebs trying to raise their stock value.
I know how they pull these digits:
They count in wholesale orders, even ones that are done for fulfillment in 6 months time and more.
Are they lying? No. Are they geniune with digits? No No No.
has ruined the new MacBook Pro. I work for an MSP in the Seattle area, and every single one of our customers has banned the new Apple from purchases because of Intel. Most of my customers are still buying off-lease 2011 MacBooks since they support the same max amount of RAM.
Same reason why my company is buying used MacBooks. Sad to see Intel did this. They've set back progress almost six years at this point.
Intel obviously supports rump since they stand against progress.
Are terrible people to design mass market products.
There is a reason why most cars are not brown, diesel, station wagons with manual transmissions.
If Apple is really doing that great why were Apple Employees told during appraisals weare not doing well and given miserable pay revisions and also told to cut budgets and reduce contractor spend by 20% with no employee backfill
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Are you the same guy who can't get Internet access in Seattle faster than 14.4k?
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I remember a few years ago a co-worker went to art school, told him he HAD to buy a macbook pro for the class, hearing of this I asked what he was running on it.... photoshop
A current co worker still lugs around his old book pro with a failed battery, I asked why, it does what I want for personal stuff, ok fair enough. Why did you choose it in the first place? It was a requirement for my college.
now how many other schools require their students to buy only mac, with the 30 year old notion that mac's are better at graphics and or music or whatever else, just so they can run software that will easily run any other laptop?
Well, of course the MacBoook Pro "outsold" all other laptops this year... it's the only line of laptops with MacOS that was updated after an extremely long time, versus a huge number of options that are constantly being updated with Windows 7,8,10 or any flavor of Linux. It'll obviously outsell any other single brand as long as it keeps it's ecosystem enclosed into a walled garden giving anything from a single option to a handful for desperate users needing an upgrade.
Wanna get a new Windows 10 laptop? Well, here's a huge choice of options you have to fit whatever needs you have, coming out every single month, with all sorts of prices and specs, from a huge list of brands you can choose whichever is more reliable for you.
Wanna get a new MacBook? Well, I guess Apple could perhaps release a new revision to replace it's 4 year old Macbook Pro, I'm not sure how much better it'll be since the company has been giving a shit about professional customers anymore, with specs that could be kinda underpowered and outdated, but it's still guaranteed to be Apple priced. It`s your only option though, so you better kneel down and pray to our lord Jobs.
People who are invested, used to, like and/or have the money to be into the Apple ecosystem will buy a new MacBook Pro - if only for the hardware upgrade and because they have no other option. Not everyone hated the lack of ports, but even those who did just have no other option.
But hey smart guy, want some statistics? There:
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https://www.statista.com/stati...
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https://www.netmarketshare.com...
Nothing new under the sun. MacOS is still around the 10% mark which it has been keeping for around 2 to 3 years now, with different versions of Windows going somewhere between 60% to 80% when added up. There's the plain hard truth of this game: the whole OS preference has been pretty much fixed for quite a while now. And despite Microsoft making some very horrible decisions for Windows 10, I also don't see much incentive for people to go MacOS either.
Like most Apple slashvertisements. I'm overlooking a cubical farm with the disproof now.
The MacRumors article is based on another article from Slice Intelligence. Gotta like this finding:
"Those who ordered the new MacBook Pro look strikingly similar to the early adopters who bought the Apple Watch on release."
So how is the Apple Watch fairing these days?
at the middle of November?
Holy crap Batman
That's all?
What kind of stupid article is this and why is it here. In the whole of 2016?
DRM? No thanks, I'll just get it somewhere else...
Apple *do* know their target markets after all!
Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops.
Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices.
Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.
So the demand will be big for 2 more months?
mac pro is made in the usa to bad apple is not keeping it up to date.
There have been many more PC laptops shipped then all Apple laptops combined. It's a bit of an Apples to oranges comparison (heh) because Apple's platform only carries a few device models, while the PC platform carries hundreds of models from dozens of vendors.
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Blah blah blah apple fans, shiny... Or maybe some people were just angry enough with Windows 10 to switch.
Honestly, I'm not sure how non-tech people deal with it. Actually, I do, they buy Macs.
Regress on all fronts.
Trump is the opposite of a Progressive, he's a Regressive.
In the newer models
Apple Watch sales have been steady and Apple just introduced an update. Apple has already said sales were ahead of expectations....
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I'll say that again: crap article, stupid statistics, idiotic conclusions. "And that's all I've got to say about that."
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
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All I want to know is, what are Razer's year on year sales figures doing? Apple has already peaked their share price. Razer seems to be making nice tech and is an up and comer. I want to see what they're doing.
They compare a laptop that is supposedly "Pro" with 2-in-ones, air-like non professional gadgets? Is the new MacBook Pro really Pro, or not?
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The promise to ban muslims seems to have quietly dropped off his web site. Oh dear.
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I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
So,what you are saying is you *cant* actually get the Macbook pro for '1/2' the price? Got it.
...that the reason she would consider buying a new MacBook (even though she won't due to $$) is because of the latest OS release not being supported on her current MacBook hardware. Like many other things in technology, persuasion through defiance of desire combined with uncertainty of safety (updates generally help with that.....generally) wins some sales. I haven't seen the actual numbers, but I would assume that number is greater than the number of users it convinced to switch platforms. Sort of a "duh" there. Switching platforms taking more time and effort generally ensures income by the manufacturer for simplicity and laziness.
Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue SO FAR, from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.
If I sell apples and oranges by the street for 8 hours, and I sell 10 apples and 8 oranges in the first 5 minutes, it does not indicate that apples are the winner.
I'm SURE they don't have any relationship whatsoever.
I'm gonna look up "Slice Intelligence" and see where they're headquartered and if they have any satellite locations. Ah. Here ya go, and BTW, San Mateo, CA and Cupertino, CA are about 50 miles apart:
PALO ALTO OFFICE
Slice
800 Concar Drive, Floor 5
San Mateo, CA 94402
MEDIA
jaimee@slice.com
+1 206-390-6637
"Laptops"
That is a huge problem. The Mac Book Pro is supposed to compete in the Hybrid market. Unfortunately is doesn't compete, at all. Not that Microsoft cares. Apple is just another hardware vendor that requires an Windows license, even it is run in a VM.
Every MAC users in most businesses has to have a Windows VM. There are rare cases where some people don't have a Windows license running in a VM on their MAC, but those are rare cases.